Background
Albert Raymond Walker was born on May 9, 1881 in Sonoma, California.
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Albert Walker
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He graduated from Brown University.
Career
Together with Percy A. Eisen (1885-1946), he designed the Alameda Theater, the Ambassador Hotel, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel at the bottom of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, the Fine Arts Building, the Four Star Theater, the Humphreys Avenue School, the Walter G. McCarty Office Building and Hotel Project, the Mid-Wilshire Office Building, the National Bank of Commerce, the James Oviatt Building, the Plaza Hotel, the South Basin Oil Company Store and Office Building, the Sunkist Building, the Taft Building, the Texaco Office Building, the Title Insurance and Trust Company Building, the United Artists Theatre, the Chamber of Mines and Oil Building, the Ardmore Apartments, the Wiltshire Royale Apartments, and the Bay City Guaranty Building and Loan Association in Santa Monica, California. Outside Los Angeles, they also designed the Empire Theater in Long Beach, California, the Public Library in Torrance, California, the United Artists Pasadena Theatre in Pasadena, California, the United Artists Theater in El Centro, California, the Breakers Hotel in Long Beach, California, El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, California, and the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, California. They also built the Valley National Bank Building, the oldest skyscraper in Tucson, Arizona, in 1929.
Together with Gus Kalionzes and Charles A. Klingerman, he designed the Saint Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles in 1948.
Death
He died on September 17, 1958 in Los Los Angeles
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Nationality
American